John G. Heim <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote: >I think you've gotten a lot of good advice in this thread. The only thing >I'd add is that if you are getting into linux with the goal of ultimately >finding a job as a linux systems administrator, you should eventually work >toward learning the command line and you should ultimately end up using >either fedora or debian (or both). Knowing the shell very well is a prerequisite to being a competent and effective Linux user, and even more so for anyone who wants to administer systems for other people, professionally or otherwise. Speakup would be a good starting point, since it has very few dependencies and can run even when large parts of the system are unavailable - precisely the situations in which an administrator's skills are put to the test. I would suggest learning to use the shell and Linux tools as a user first, proceeding thereafter to acquire administrative skills.
